Gallery: Inside The General Motors Heritage Center
Apr 14, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: Inside The General Motors Heritage Center
When Chad was in town for the Detroit Autorama he managed to sweet talk BangShift.com member and GM guy Mike Copeland into taking him into the GM Heritage Center. This is total nirvana for any fan of...
Totally Insane: Rocket Plane Racing Series to Debut Next Weekend, With Video
Apr 14, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Totally Insane: Rocket Plane Racing Series to Debut Next Weekend, With Video
The Rocket Racing League, an organization that is set to put on races featuring rocket-powered experimental racing airplanes, is ready to show themselves to the world at the QuickTrip Air and Rocket...
eBay Find: An Oshkosh U-30 Tow Tractor
Apr 14, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Find: An Oshkosh U-30 Tow Tractor
This is probably the slowest vehicle we have ever featured on the electronic pages of BangShift.com, but it is also one of the baddest. We present, for your eBay bidding pleasure, an Oshkosh U-30 Tow...
Chrysler to Auction Historical Collection Vehicles, Not the Good Ones
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Chrysler to Auction Historical Collection Vehicles, Not the Good Ones
Whenever we hear of a domestic auto manufacturer auctioning off parts of their company historical collections we kind of freak out. When the news broke that Chrysler was going to sell some of their...
Fire Video: A Chevelle Cooked Medium Rare
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Fire Video: A Chevelle Cooked Medium Rare
There’s good and bad in this video. The bad is the obvious nitrous pop which blows the hood scoop off the nice looking red Chevelle and then turns into a raging inferno shortly afterward. The...
Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower
It wasn’t that long ago that nitromethane-burning engines were not making 2,000 hp. As you’ll see in this video, that magical number can be breached on gasoline in a hurry using a pair of...
Hollywood Hot Rods Tapped to Build Raybestos Brakes Roadster Pickup
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Hollywood Hot Rods Tapped to Build Raybestos Brakes Roadster Pickup
Troy Ladd and the fine fellows at Hollywood Hot Rods have been given the green light by Raybestos Brakes and Chassis products to build a pretty kick ass 1932 Ford roadster pickup. The build will...
Craigslist Find: A 1966 Mustang Rat Rod Even Barris Would Not Admit To
Apr 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Find: A 1966 Mustang Rat Rod Even Barris Would Not Admit To
Joe Grippo should be a name familiar to regular BangShift.com readers as he regularly supplies us great photos from drag races, car shows, and the like. Joe worships at the Ford alter and he sent...
Historic Carnage Monday Edition: Truck Burning, Cars Flying, Driver Hanging Off of a Bridge
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Carnage Monday Edition: Truck Burning, Cars Flying, Driver Hanging Off of a Bridge
We’re back again with another load of scans from our grandfather’s scrap books of old wrecks, crazy photos, and gearhead history from the late 1940s and early 1950s. This time we’re...
More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like...
New Product: Annular Nitrous Nozzles From Induction Solutions
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on New Product: Annular Nitrous Nozzles From Induction Solutions
With the explosion of small-tire drag racing, Top Sportsman, and Pro Modified, nitrous oxide research and development has never been pushed as hard as it has been in recent years. Steve...
Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers
Stunt and precision driving shows ain’t what they used to be. Scratch that, they are exactly what they used to be, except now they don’t do the truly death defying stuff like jumping cars...
RacingJunk Find: A Massive Pro Street 1967 Ford LTD
Apr 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Massive Pro Street 1967 Ford LTD
We love Pro Street cars. It’s not something we’re planning on apologizing for any time soon. This 1967 Ford LTD that we found on RacingJunk.com hits our personal perfect formula right...
Event Coverage: Show and Cruise photos from the 9th Lonestar Roundup
Apr 10, 2010Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Event Coverage: Show and Cruise photos from the 9th Lonestar Roundup
Spring in Austin Texas means it’s Lonestar Roundup time, and BangShift.com members Charles Wickam, BOOGHAR on the BangShift forums, and Chris Maynard, R&D guru at MSD Ignition, are making...












